Collecting My Thoughts

Have you ever thought about how much the 4 candidates actually do have in common?  Vance's wife, Usha, and Kamala Harris are daughters o...

Today I listened to a Becket Cook show, "One lie at a time" that discussed the Norman Lear comedies of the 1970s-80s, like "O...

Last Walk For me it was a poignant video moment from the hundreds we have witnessed from Ukraine in the last two weeks. Perhaps you saw it t...

To avoid watching the news and the mess Biden has made of our lives, I've been reading the March book club selection while on the exercy...

We don’t see a lot of movies.  The last time we went to a theater, it was sold out on-line, not only for that showing, but the next.  But ou...

Forty years ago in 1977 we flew to California with our children for an extended visit with my in-laws, Bob and Rosemary. My husband's f...

"I was climbing the ladder of success in the acting and performing world. I was not at all Christian back then. My girlfriend at the ...

“The shooting death of a young black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last year touched off a national discussion about ...

Everyone is posting photos of “dad,” so here’s mine.  I don’t have a lot to choose from.  We didn’t have digital cameras in those days, or s...

It gives me pleasure to report on a federal health/poverty/race program that actually is meeting its goals—Caring for 2.  I’d never heard of...

Sitting on the deck he helped build in September 2010 for our 50th wedding anniversary celebration at our daughter’s home. The colan...

"Alamogordo resident Greg Fultz’s billboard is getting national attention — and it could land him in jail. The 35-year old owner of int...

"To everyone who had a great dad who was always there for you, great. And if you got a crummy one in life's father lottery, well, h...

Happy Father's Day at Lakeside

The training of children As I've mentioned before, I've been reading a chapter a day of Westminster Pulpit (10 volumes, compiled fro...

Universal pre-school is one of Obama's plans. In today's WSJ opinion piece lauding such efforts, the writer finally got to the poin...

A Father's love This is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen. A picture of how God carries us in love. "Dick and Rick Hoy...

Do children need day-care or daddy-care? If Democrats want to wag a finger this week, get all the men in a room and demand that they mentor ...

Thursday Thirteen--13 communication tips for fathers In today's Wall Street Journal a father of 3 writes to Sue Shellenbarger's co...

Are dads less handy these days? There's an interesting discussion going on over at the Juggle, the Wall St. Journal work blog. Tom W...